VW Golf GTi Performance – Handles like a dream

Subaru with their WRX and Mitsubishi with their Evo have provided high performance sedans with a youthful image. Another category would be the hot hatch which in earlier times was epitomised by the Peugeot 205. Now there are a considerable number of players in the field but a stand out performer for many years has been the Volkswagen Golf GTi. Now the Mark VII Golf was released in Australia last year and now we have the GTi Performance model. Brent Davison from the Newcastle Herald and the Illawarra Mercury and I have been driving the car. I have to say that the handling was just stunning.

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David Brown started his working life as a Civil Engineer but you would not want him to design a bridge you wanted to safely walk over. His passion was in traffic engineering and transport planning which is all about how we use our transport systems not how we build them. He soon became involved in commenting on issues through all avenues of the media. He is now a motoring and transport journalist. He test drives a new car each week but his ultimate measure of how good a car is relies on his 12 year old and the Hayden Brown “Will you drive me to school in that car” factor.